Clinical Decision-Making Tools
What are Clinical Decision-Making Tools?
Clinical decision-making tools, also known as point-of-care tools, are digital resources designed to assist healthcare professionals in making informed clinical decisions at the time of patient care.
These tools provide quick access to evidence-based information, guidelines, and algorithms that can enhance the quality of care.
The Trust has access to the following Clinical decision-making tools: UpToDate, BMJ Best Practice, Dynamed, ClinicalKey for Nursing and BNF/BNFC.
Some of these subscription resources are available password-free on Trust devices, otherwise they will require your OpenAthens account for access.
Click on any resource below for further information and access support:
UpToDate is a comprehensive, evidence-based clinical decision support resource, widely used by healthcare professionals to access the latest medical information and recommendations at the point of care.
BMJ Best Practice includes evidence-based condition and symptom topics across 32 clinical specialties which provide the user with guidance throughout the full patient journey, from determining diagnosis and treatment approach to follow-up support.
DynaMed combines the highest quality evidence-based information, expert guidance and a user-friendly, personalized experience to deliver accurate answers fast at the point of care.
ClinicalKey for Nursing provides access to nursing content including full-text books and journals, point-of-care monographs, customisable patient education handouts, drug monographs, videos, images, practice guidelines and clinical trials.
The BNF aims to provide prescribers, pharmacists, and other healthcare professionals with sound up-to-date information about the use of medicines.